In commodity markets, such as oil and coal, there is little or no scope for differentiation.
The switch from proprietary, airline-specific technologies to open standards will, however, reduce the airlines' scope for differentiation.
In my next blog, I will write about product lifecycle analysis sustainability reporting how it can be the reason for differentiation in a busy market space.
But while technology would seem to make competitive differentiation within the airport more difficult, it is simultaneously increasing the scope for differentiation in the air, through the provision of ever more elaborate in-flight services.
So the next time you are hiring a new team member, looking for differentiation in a brand or product or even hiring an ad agency, ask yourself if the people or the ideas you are working with are predictable.
Control of the payment infrastructure and individual payment choices allows for competitive differentiation among online marketplaces.
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Understanding what will truly turn consumers to fans will provide a foundation for meaningful differentiation.
Organizations that truly embrace big data can create new opportunities for strategic differentiation in this era of engagement.
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However, Mays says he believes that in the end merging global tastes calls for less differentiation among markets than in the past.
The race for product differentiation and fatter profit margins has even birthed some strange bedfellows this holiday season: Exclusive brands that are the result of partnerships between two retailers.
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"I think its interesting that they're going for a point of differentiation, aiming for the high-end of the e-ink market, " said Philip Jones, editor of the Bookseller magazine.
Marketing will be the primary differentiation for these pills, since each works the same way.
It is exciting to see more CEOs promoting world class customer service as a point of differentiation for their businesses.
Live events like these are a real point of differentiation for MobiTV and our technology platform, which excels in this arena.
"LTE is the future of mobile communications, and faster data networks will become a key area of differentiation for consumers when choosing their mobile devices, " said Kevin Ho, President of the Handset Product Line of Huawei Device.
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Many of them are highly customized to allow for new features and device differentiation, but that same customization also makes it harder for vendors to update them to the latest versions.
For obvious reasons of brand differentiation, Lib Dem leaders do not endorse this version of events.
But for consumers, consistency and differentiation are two entirely different things.
But, for the manufacturer, the differentiation resides with the brand itself.
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The ability to engage in this differentiation is especially important for software creators.
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Identify an opportunity that has substantial differentiation from competitors and protection for that exclusivity.
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There is a tremendous opportunity for businesses to take cause marketing to the next step, making it work for good while demonstrating value, providing differentiation and building brand loyalty.
" However, he said, "the global smartphone industry has now become hypercompetitive, so any differentiation on specs or services for the S 4 is likely to last only a few months or a year at best before it is benchmarked by rivals.
Apart from controlling mountings costs, the restructuring plan aims to diversify AMD beyond the PC market and target other adjacent markets, including dense serving, new embedded markets and lower-power form factors, where its IP provides differentiation and a better opportunity for it to grow its share.
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Wal-Mart's "energized differentiation, " an advertising term for the direction a brand is going based on consumer interest, loyalty and momentum, dropped 50% between 2011 and 2012 among college-educated adults, it said.
He can command top-dollar fees for personal appearances his own competitive weapon being differentiation, not low cost.
The worry for some analysts is that Netflix ends up with little differentiation other than first mover advantage in streaming technologies, coupled to the hit and miss business of funding creative content.
Her work will focus on a high throughput platform for label-free detection of biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.
Continuous monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells is of great importance for the development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies and is extremely novel.
An extra click (to the set's page) gives back the set list, but the lack of immediate differentiation between tracks and sets is a clear loss for creators promoting collections of tracks, and has got some long-time users howling.
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